Liste 2025 

Larry Achiampong 

& Marcus Jefferson

 

Duo Booth in Collaboration 

with HARLESDEN HIGH STREET 

In the framework of a classroom setting, Larry Achiampong (Copperfield) & Marcus Jefferson (Harlesden High Street) reflect on the lottery of growing up black, that begins with racism and socio-economics but is rooted in prejudices that can only be understood properly with time and consideration. Achiampong requests people in power to repeat a phrase in chalk, turning punishment to reflection. Phrases like "Batman's only superpower is wealth" use metaphor to confront the reality of the barriers to social mobility and equality. Jefferson brings the windows to this conceptual classroom, made with materials used in the drug trade like Vaseline and clingfilm, all used to conceal and evade detection but here abstracted into curious gestural compositions -- If you know, you know.
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Larry Achiampong (b. 1984, London) has work held in collections internationally, including Tate (UK), UK Government Art Collection, British Council Collection, The Sindika Dokolo Collection (Luanda, Angola), FRAC Bretagne (France), Servais Family Collection (Brussels, Belgium).
He has exhibited with Manifesta 13 & 14, Tate Britain, Gwangju Biennale, The Art Institute of Chicago, Fondation Phi in Canada, Turner Contemporary, BALTIC, Museum of The African Diaspora in San Francisco and more. Forthcoming exhibitions include Barbican, London, MACBA, Madrid, and KANAL-Pompidou.

Marcus Jefferson (b. 1991, London) has exhibited internatonally with Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Basel Social Club, Harlesden High Street and Tick Tack Antwerp.